8 ideas
1597 | Thales was the first western thinker to believe the arché was intelligible [Roochnik on Thales] |
15927 | Definition just needs negation, known variables, conjunction, disjunction, substitution and quantification [Weyl, by Lavine] |
13639 | Quine says higher-order items are intensional, and lack a clearly defined identity relation [Quine, by Shapiro] |
21557 | Russell confused use and mention, and reduced classes to properties, not to language [Quine, by Lackey] |
3013 | Nothing is stronger than necessity, which rules everything [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |
1494 | Thales said water is the first principle, perhaps from observing that food is moist [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1713 | Thales must have thought soul causes movement, since he thought magnets have soul [Thales, by Aristotle] |
1742 | Thales said the gods know our wrong thoughts as well as our evil actions [Thales, by Diog. Laertius] |